Revision as of 16:26, 30 March 2009

A workshop to get your Arduino talking to your computer. This is *NOT* a tutorial as such, but a time when a bunch of people who want to get going with Arduinos start doing it. If there are problems we can all work them out together.

You'll need a laptop, an arduino and a cable to connect it. There are a couple options but the one I know about is a USB to TTL serial cable. The docs on the arduino you select should discuss this. A breadboard will be handy for some arduino types but not for others.

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The hard part! This will not be recurring which makes it a little easier... Need to give people time to order their arduinos if they don't already have one, so how about 2 weeks out at minimum. Let's try a table.

There's also a bunch of BoArduino kits available for people to build
>> at Noisebridge. They're $17 each, and do everything an Arduino
>> does, except you need a USB-TTL cable, which we also have for $19.
>> (The upside of this is that you can dedicate a BoArduino to a
>> project without wasting the USB interface that comes with Arduino.)
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